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Alan ... in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Podcasts to travel to

So what does Alan in Belfast listen to during the drive into work, on the plane, in the Tube or standing doing the dishes at the kitchen sink?

There’s a lot of dross around – and I still subscribe to some of it in iTunes! But some of the podcasts that rise to the top include:

Broadcasting House. Catch up on what happened at 10am over on Radio 4 each Sunday morning. It’s the next best to Five Live’s Sunday Service when Fi Glover presented it prior to flitting to Radio 4. [Podcast Feed]

The FT.com Podcast. I only listen to Lucy Kellaway's column, and delete the other half of the content. I’m not a regular reader of the pink paper, but Lucy often has a twisted way of viewing office politics and modern business nonsense. [Podcast Feed]

LatestZDNetPodcasts. Working in the IT industry, I blast through a selection of the ZDNet podcasts every couple of weeks. Particularly good to get a flavour of what the big technology companies (Sun, Apple, BEA, Google, SAP, Intel, etc) are up to. [Podcast Feed]

Letter to America. Not for the faint-hearted or easily offended. A weekly window into the larger-than-life and often crisis-hit world of Jett Loe – he lives in Belfast so you don’t have to. [Podcast Feed]

Slate Explainer Podcasts. Daily three-minute random explanation of something you didn’t know you need to be told about. Worth hearing about half the time. Tip: don’t listen to them – just scroll through the transcript that’s helpfully provided on the each podcast’s show-notes. [Podcast Feed]